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THE WORLD - SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE GEBUNDEN

The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a fresh new history of the world  told through families.
It begins with the first human footsteps ever found: a family of five  an adult and four
children  walking along a beach 950 000 years ago. This is a history of deep themes - religion
empire  technology  ideology - but tethered to the biography of families at the heart of the
essential drama of human existence. All life  every race and faith  is here  a study of
interconnectivity and hybridity. The families in this book are African  Asian  European 
American  Buddhist  Hindu  Islamic  Jewish  Christian: they ruled kingdoms from Benin and Rome
Mali to Beijing  Cairo to Tokyo  Angkor to Constantinople. We meet the families of Genghis Khan
and the Caesars  the Ottomans and Habsburgs  the Ethiopian Solomonids and Japanese Sun lineages
the Medici  the Incas  the Saudis  Castros and Rothschilds  right up to the Assads and Kims 
the Kennedys  Bushes and the Obamas. The World is the story of humanity from prehistory to the
present day  examining power  literature  war  art  science and daily life  and features the
lives of a stunningly eclectic cast of the unknown and the great  each of whom are connected in
a multitude of ways. Montefiore weaves a compelling narrative introducing the reader to the
exuberance  ingenuity  idiosyncrasy  cruelty and misery of human experience  the variety of
character and of culture  and presents the history of the world in all its complexity as no
writer has done before.

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